MOTM

synthbaron wrote:
>>"high quality" and "MP3" Do not belong in the same sentence. I 
> never, ever 
>>will buy any sort of online music UNLESS I can download it in a 
> lossless 
>>DRMless format.
> I hope you don't buy DVD's then.

Can you buy online DVDs of music only? I didn't think that DVD-Audio was lossy. 
I know typical DVD encoding is lossy, too, but then again, I don't buy my music 
on DVD and never listen to DVDs in headphones.

> Bad MP3 encoding is horrendous, good MP3 encoding is 
> indistinguashable from the CD counterpart.

To the untrained ear, I'd agree. But even at 320kbps, it still narrows the 
separation and muddy's the high end, and it's far from indistinguishable. It 
might work fine for haystack EQ rock, but it significantly harms music that has 
wide dynamic range and wide frequency response (trance, ambient, etc..).

It's definitely there and noticeable. You might not be able to hear it, but it 
has a noticeable (negative) effect.

-->Neil